I have heard often enough that people with lunar calendars are goddess worshipers. Why is this?

Question

Chad: the god and the goddess come from wicca. (A religion founded a little over 50 years ago.) America uses a solar calandar.

Ouros: Your answer was poor and stated poorly. Please give reasons and sources.

Fifi, though some of your answer was based in archeological evidence it does not answer my question. We don't know what calendars the cromagnans had, and there is no evidence as to what gods they worshiped.

Answer 1

I dunno, I have heard lunar calendars are good for tracking menstal cycles.

Answer 2

First of all, the God and Goddess are not just Wiccan; many, many belief systems have both or more. Many pagans follow the lunar cycles to focus on and understand nature, to remember that the dark has life and balances the light, and to know when herbs and crops should be harvested or when to do ritual and spellwork. Since some of the most visible pagans are Dianic (Diana the huntress is their main deity) people tend to lump all together into Goddess worshippers.
The chineese use a lunar measurement; the New Year is on different days because of when the moon enters Scorpio, I believe.

Answer 3

That depends on what you mean by "Lunar Calendar". If you mean a calendar that is actually based on Lunar Cycles, the person in question is probably actually a Muslim - they use a different sort of calendar than most of the world, (at least for religious things). It is based solely on Lunar cycles rather than the position of the sun.

If you are actually talking about a normal western calendar that just prominently displays the phases of the moon on different days, then it would probably be due to the fact that Wiccans often celebrate their religious gatherings on the nights with full moons. Since they are planning to get together on those nights, they would need to know when they are. Hence, they would tend to buy calendars that marked those days.

Also, some Wiccans/Pagans/"Magickal Practioners" tend to believe that the phase of the moon can effect the potency of various types of spells. Therefor, they would want a calendar that would tell them what the phase of the moon would be on different days.

Answer 4

Simply put, the Moon is considered Feminine, whereas the Sun is Masculine. Just possessing a calender pertaining to the Lunar cycles does not make one a worshiper of a Goddess. The reason you have heard this is purely because your source is not in full possession of the facts.

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Answer 5

Luna is the goddess of the moon, the solar calendar is dependent on the basis of the sun worshipers. Not that any of it matters much in modern society.

Answer 6

Circa 35,000 BCE saw the emergence of the Cro-Magnon people, the first recognizable humans. From then until about 8000 BCE, our ancestors organized themselves into hunter-gatherer societies. Humans alone have developed the realization that their life was finite; that they would all die. This resulted in the development of the primitive religious beliefs. Societies which relied mainly on hunting by men naturally developed hunting gods to worship. Those in which gathering was more reliable generally created vegetative Goddesses. The importance of fertility in crops, in domesticated animals, in wild animals and in the tribe itself were of paramount importance to their survival. The female life-giving principle was considered divine and a great mystery. Some Goddess statues still survive from this era. One web site contains photographs of Goddess statues from circa 30,000 BCE to 1987 CE. 1

It is important to realize that many of these findings by archaeologists and historians are speculative in nature. For example, the interpretation that the old European culture stressed the female as divine is largely based on the number of carvings of a female shape found from this era. Some point to the relative lack of equivalent male statues as evidence of a Goddess culture. Others suggest that the female statues might have been the old European culture's equivalent of modern-day erotic photographs.

Answer 7

The Mother Goddeess in linked to the Moon. The triple Goddess is three Goddesses in one. Same with the Moon which has three phases Waxing, Full and Waning.

Answer 8

Native Americans used the moon as a calendar and they were not goddess worshipers.

Answer 9

No. In asia the Lunar calendar has been around for a long time. We still celibrate the Lunar new year.

Answer 10

Probably because you have to have a lunar calendar to be a goddess worshiper.

Answer 11

because your sources are superstitious. Lunar calendars just measure the moon's path across our sky, instead of the sun's